Have you seen (or heard of) this man?

Finnish police this week issued a description of an alleged con-man, saying that he “looked like José Manuel Barroso”.

The man is wanted by police on suspicion of having persuaded someone to hand over €200 for clothes that he claimed, falsely, were designer leftovers from a fashion show. The incident occurred on 11 September in the town of Sipoo after the perpetrator of the alleged swindle stopped in his Mercedes car, ostensibly to ask the victim for directions.

Barroso’s unwitting involvement in the police investigation has so far, however, failed to do any good: the con-man is still on the loose. Perhaps not enough Finnish people know what Barroso looks like for the comparison to pay dividends.